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User Experience And The Poison On The Tip Of The Arrow
- GuiA 15y agoUser Experience (and to some extent User Interface) design are, I think, the two most misunderstood things in the valley and startup world. There are so many words thrown around UI, UX, IxD (interaction design), etc. So confusing! Concretely, most of the people I've met who qualify themselves as practitioners of these disciplines are really graphic/web designers. But the field of user-centered design (a term that I think encompasses well all of the former) is so much more than that! People like Don Norman, Bill Moggridge, Bill Verplank, etc. who pretty much founded the modern field of interaction design did not make their career by pushing pixels on Dribbble or implementing fancy JQuery transitions between their website's forms. User centered design is much deeper, fuzzy and humanistic than that— if you claim to be a UI/UX/etc. designer, please step out of {Photoshop | Firebug console} for a bit and delve into the works of the aforementioned authors, as a start. It might be harder to read than colorful blog posts, but your work will be so much deeper because of it.
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